I watched the vid. And then gassed a bit, went over to Thomann… and then saw that its $611 Canuckistanian Kopecks.
Naaah. I’ll pass. Though I do like it a lot… I’d prefer it to be passive though, with VT VT and a 3-way parallel, series, OMG switch for the MM.
For all you Fender Nippon and Japanese band fans (I mean YOU @John_E , @howard , @JerryP, @Wombat-metal ):
In case you don’t know Silent Siren, they are not the Runaways
Love the color, hate the stripe…
Love the comment “This will be metric so I guess it’s threads per inch” 
Dave’s Canadian… so yeah, he works on the semi-metric system 
Long story, please bear with me…
Years ago, I toured as a guitar/bass/backline tech. I worked mostly with southern rock bands. My favorite was my time with the Marshall Tucker Band.
This was in the mid 90’s - early 2000’s. The original line up ended in 1980 with Tommy’s death in a freak vehicle accident, Tommy’s brother, Toy died in 1993, followed by the death of guitarist George McCorkle in 2007.
For the past few years, MTB’s bass chair has been held by Spartanburg, South Carolina’s (MTB’s home) Ryan Ware, he’s younger than the rest but he’s a perfect fit for the band. They were in Nashville last year, playing at the Ryman Auditorium and I had the chance for my Son and I (he grew up with these guys, now he’s 28) to stop by and hang with the band and crew during soundcheck and check out the show, Dave Mason was also playing.
It was the first time that I met Ryan, he’s a great guy. I didn’t notice at first, but during the show I saw that he was playing a 70’s white Fender P bass just like the one Tommy played before his death.
Later, I was messaging him on FB and mentioned how cool it was that he was playing a “tribute to Tommy” bass, he then told me that it was Tommy’s bass. He was the son of one of MTB’s original road crew and Toy gave him Tommy’s bass and amp/cabs when he was 8 years old!
It’s pretty cool that it has gone full circle and being played with MTB again. Last night, MTB was playing at the Grand Old Opry house , again in Nashville. my guitar player buddy and I met at the Opry House (in the middle of several tornados, sadly with fatalities). At first, everyone in the building were moved to the middle (no audience, this was during sound check), but after a while, we were allowed to get everything going again.
FINALLY (The reason for this post) I was looking forward to seeing, maybe even playing Tommy’s bass. Ryan walk on the stage holding a white P bass, but this one had a white pickguard. The band rocked, Doug Gray (who wrote and sang Heard it in a love song) has dealt with some heath issues but last night he looked and sounded great.
With the weather situation, we didn’t stay for the show, but as I was leaving Tucker’s tour manager and I were catching up and we were teasing Ryan about being so young, when Dibby (tour manager) said, that’s Tommy’s bass that he’s playing, I asked about it and he said that Ryan had swapped the pickup and pickguard, and he added active electronics. After I gave Ryan a dirty look, he responded by saying “Hey, it’s not like I’m going to sell it” . Youth. sigh.
Here’s a pic of Tommy.
Here’s a pic of Ryan.
And here’s a pic of me and David “Dibby” Warren with Tommy’s bass as it looks today.
I have a 1976 Fender P bass that need to be completely restored, eventually I am going to turn it into my own Tommy tribute bass…
Not sure if this has already been shown here.
It is beautiful. Way too much money though…
Dang that is a fine color…
Not normally into white basses, but this is kinda sexy (especially if I were playing in a tux on a cruise ship 
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Really nice and remember that a white jazz bass is iconic 
that Ricky is so pretty I don’t even care that it has gold hardware 
Anyone know what these two 5 strings are in the middle of this picture? Yes, I took the picture and could have asked someone, but I don’t like talking to people and I was in a bit of a rush. They are beautiful and I’m confident are out of my price range.
I am guessing the green one is a Spector. That’s the Spector Euro body shape, shared with the Warwick Streamer, but that looks more Spector than Warwick to me.
Just when I thought I couldn’t like you more
Ok here’s the down low, @Paul_9207
@howard was right about the Spector
The other one is the Ibanez BTB (No not beginners to BadA$$)
